John's Favorite Songs

After the movie list, here are my favoirte songs.

Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Paint It Black by Rolling Stones
Caught Up in the Moment by Big and Rich
Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook
Ride a Cowboy by Big and Rich
American Pie by Don McLean
What was I Thinkin by Derks Bentley
Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim
Carolyn's Booty by Presidents of the United States
I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You by Colin Hay
Seek Up by Dave Matthews Band (Red Rocks Concert)
You and Me by Dave Matthews Band
Gray Street by Dave Matthews Band
Grace is Gone by Dave Matthews Band
Hunger for the Great Light by Dave Matthews Band
Why Don't You Get a Job? by The Offspring

John's Movie List

After watching one favorite movies, Twister, I thought I should post my favorite movies in no particular order.
-Empire Strikes Back
-Rigth Stuff
-Revenge of the Sith
-Twister
-Wrath of Khan (Star Trek II)
-The Negotiator
-Die Hard
-Bull Durham
-A Bridge To Far
-Hard Rain

Gray in the beard

I know that I am only 32 years old but I am going gray. It is only in the beard. I grew the beard to look older and now it is the only thing with the gray hair. I have had the beard for 10 years except for 6 months. Goatie? Deep thoughts....

What is it about garter belts?

I did warn you..... I don't know what it is about garter belts and nylons. Holy shit batman. It is too bad I can't get Colleen dress like this to work.

BRAND NEW DAY ON THE BLOG

Seeing that Colleenie and I are sharing this blog. I have been a little worried about posting things because I know that she would be checking it more often. With the site now passworded to protect the innocent, I thought I can get a little more racey and not worried about the whole world reading it. So, here is some more of what is in John's head............ I did warn you.

We're out of that...

John and I went on a date last Saturday for Valentine's day. Our first outing, as a couple sans baby, in over 16 months. Of course we didn't get our shit together to make a dinner reservation until the Tuesday before so we couldn't get in to PF Chang's. (yes, I know, way over hyped but I love me some dandan noodles). I made an online reservation at the new BBQ place in Bridge Street called SmokeHouse. We were able to get out first time choice so it was set. Our new (and potentially permanent) babysitter, came over to meet and greet Alice and the dogs. Amazingly enough, Alice took right to her - a big relief to me.

We arrived at Bridge Street, headed to the restaurant, and were seated in the back corner against the wall. The entire place was set up in 2-tops (presumably for lovey couples) but I could quickly see that there was a huge disconnect between splitting the tables for maximum occupancy and staffing appropriately for maximun occupancy. The physical area of our table had 16 2-top tables and only one server - who was literally running.

We sat for about 5 minutes before we were greeted. I ordered a Cosmopolitan and John ordered a Jack on the rocks. The drinks came and the server disappeared. My drink was gross. It tasted like it was made with those sugary syrups that you buy at the grocery store and "just add alcohol" and it tasted virgin instead of the Grey Goose that I ordered.

Um...just looked back at this post and realized that it is long already and we have only ordered drinks....so, here is the short, short version....

Sent drink back, ordered wine. Ordered dinner - John ordered combo plate of spare ribs and chicken, I ordered Sweet Garlic And Green Chili Grilled Red Snapper (perhaps a stupid thing to do at a bbq place but it sounded good). Dinner arrived and John had ribs and brisket not chicken and my fish tasted like it had sat in the window for about 30 minutes....it was icy cold. The waiter took my fish back and eventually a manager came over to tell us that the kitchen was out of John's chicken. Fast forward 25 minutes, another order of my fish arrives and while it is piping hot, it is also the hardest piece of anything that I have ever attempted to chew, so back it goes. The manager came out again and offered to get me something else. After some convincing, I ordered the baby back ribs. 10 minutes later, the manager was back to tell us that the kitchen was out of baby back ribs. Are you kidding me?

Now at this point, John and I are past annoyed and starting to laugh at the ridiculousness of this dining experience. We were not looking for the restaurant to buy our meal at all but a nice place such as this, needs to live up to some expectations, right? In the end, we ended up paying about $20 (John's drink, my wine, and a side salad) and recieved a coupon for a free appetizer and a $25 gift certificate. We think that we need to use the gift certificate as soon as possible because we don't see this place open for too long. Too bad....John's ribs were really good.

To cap off the evening, we walked over to Connor's for dessert and another drink(s). They have the most amazing strawberry shortcake and made me a cosmo that was insane! mmmmm....Grey Goose L'Orange Cosmo with a lime. DAMN!

So our re-entry into the dating world was a little rocky but I think there might be a little hope as long as we don't go back to SmokeHouse. :)

What did you do for Valentine's day? post a comment!

Epimetheus and Pandora

A number of my friends have a blog that they use as an outlet for thier random digressions, bitches, and general discussions.  As most of you know, John and I have a blog for Alice (Muffin's Oven and Beyond) and John has his own blog (Epimetheus and his rocks).  I don't like using Alice's blog for any of my personal things because I have become too lazy to enter anyting into her baby book, I need to just print the blog and stuff it in the book.  Also, I thought that since John posts to his own blog so infrequently, we should combine our efforts and have just one blog for the both of us.  It is entirely possible that many, if not most, of the postings will be about eachother.

John's original posting "Why Epimetheus" explains why he had chosen the original title.  When I discovered that Epimetheus's wife was Pandora....well, that just about settled it. 

I asked John about merging the blogs on last Saturday night, our first date night since Alice was born.  The conversation went like this:

Me:  Well, since you already have the Greek reference, we could name it "Epimetheus and Pandora".  They were husband and wife, right?
John:  Are you sure you want to be Pandora?
Me:  I think it may be sort of fitting.  I know that I tend to do, um, things.
John:  I think Pandora killed Epimetheus.
Me: So, like I said, sort of fitting. 

I must tell you here and now....My postings may get pissy and vulgar.  I hope that you will comment share your opinion as often as you wish.  I hope that John posts more often and does not allow me to take this whole thing over as I tend to do.  we'll see...